MGV 2009

Students in the MyGlobalVillage 2009 high school summer session have been busy. Since July 6th, they've screened the acclaimed and award-winning documentaries -- Born into Brothels (outcast youth in India), An Inconvenient Truth (the effects of global warming), Hip-Hop: Beyond Beats and Rhymes (sexism and misogyny in music), Al Otro Lado (immigration and the US/Mexico border), and a series of short international works, titled Youth Producing Change. In the coming weeks, they'll view My Country, My Country (Iraqi citizens on the war), Lioness (women military units in Ramadi), Rize (roots of krump dancing), Life and Debt (globalized poverty) and Lumo (women in a war-torn country). As a response, participants in MGV are creating mini posters, short videos, and t-shirt graphics to share concerns and views on the social and political environment for young people, locally and globally. >>Meet the students and sample their work.

A screening and exhibition of completed works will take place in the Digital Studio gallery on Thursday, September 3rd 6:00-8:00pm @ UCR California Museum of Photography. For more info, email: digitalstudioinfo@ucr.edu or www.artsblock.ucr.edu